All Dorothy Dunnett Quotes
- Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular.… All
- But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. Accepted
- And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage… Ambition
- Music, the knife without a hilt, Funny
- But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If… Affection
- After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is… Actually Got
- Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and wouldn't know what… Age
- Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that. Anyone
- Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. Facts
- [Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your… Been
- I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with. Blackberries
- The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are… Algiers
- To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately… All
- Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and… Absently
- So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you… All
- I wish to God,†said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people. D Talk
- If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,†said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy… Argue
- Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,†he said. Answered
- It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake. Asleep
- Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine once hatched an… Afterthought